MMFA stated, "This year's seminar will address such topics as DSO (day sales outstanding) and other methods of forecasting; the views of high-level industry experts on the current and future landscape of themedia industry; and the legal issues and new laws credit and finance departments need to know about going into 2016.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School continue to evaluate the program's effectiveness and have found the following: (1) tardiness declines; (2) suspensions decrease; (3) results of the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP) improved significantly more in MMFA schools than in a matched group of comparison schools; and (4) improved student performance in individual subject areas, although not statistically significant.

For the first time--and perhaps the only time--one of the finest collections of Impressionist works in North America will be displayed in a Canadian exclusive at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal will be the sole Canadian venue for this historic tour, which will travel from Europe to Asia during expansion work at the prestigious Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Chosen for their exceptional quality, 74 paintings by Bonnard, Corot, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Millet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley, and Toulouse-Lautrec, including a selection of 21 outstanding canvases by Renoir, and the Degas sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (on view exclusively in Montreal) will be shown at the MMFA.

Although representatives of the European Commission and the European Union Presidency often attend the MMFAs [Meetings of Ministers of Foreign Affairs] the European Union has not applied as such to become an observer with the BSEC.

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